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Tales from Tin Alley on CD

¤•MemÞhis•NighTs•¤ Australian artist - with the American Name. Old School Funk/Rock and Blues - Meets new School Sounds. The result.....Memphis Nights. I started off in the city of Melbourne, Australia, and fled to the country for 'The peaceful life'. The deal was to hibernate for a decade or so, and it was there in my little van in the High Country that I wrote and recorded on cheap audio cassettes. About 350 songs later the quiet life went loud. Emerging to put together a 4 piece swamp/rock band: 'The Swamp Cats', we played for 5 years in just about every backwater bar, party and major festival that was going at the time, and it's was during this time I was given the name of Memphis Nights because of the American influences and style of music. Having such a large number of originals and having played the regional circuit for so long I soon out grew the scene and needed bigger and better things. At the end of 2003 some guy in a suit convinced me to head back to the city, having to leave the band. So, as a soloist with my Bass guitar and my own recordings, I played with a variety of musicians and played at all levels and classes of venues achieving minor successes, while pursuing a market for the recordings. The market in Australia is a strange one....in 2008 I made my voyage to Europe. Armed now with 5 finished albums and a new hunger to re-invent and re-launch again. Working with new musicians and a fresh look, I record and and plays live with a new band while looking to market the music to Europe, Asia, America and beyond. With a blues voice, working with drum and bass techno samples, I'm half country - half city. A guy who had to escape the small alpine Australian country van for Europe....

¤•MemÞhis•NighTs•¤ Australian artist - with the American Name. Old School Funk/Rock and Blues - Meets new School Sounds. The result.....Memphis Nights. I started off in the city of Melbourne, Australia, and fled to the country for 'The peaceful life'. The deal was to hibernate for a decade or so, and it was there in my little van in the High Country that I wrote and recorded on cheap audio cassettes. About 350 songs later the quiet life went loud. Emerging to put together a 4 piece swamp/rock band: 'The Swamp Cats', we played for 5 years in just about every backwater bar, party and major festival that was going at the time, and it's was during this time I was given the name of Memphis Nights because of the American influences and style of music. Having such a large number of originals and having played the regional circuit for so long I soon out grew the scene and needed bigger and better things. At the end of 2003 some guy in a suit convinced me to head back to the city, having to leave the band. So, as a soloist with my Bass guitar and my own recordings, I played with a variety of musicians and played at all levels and classes of venues achieving minor successes, while pursuing a market for the recordings. The market in Australia is a strange one....in 2008 I made my voyage to Europe. Armed now with 5 finished albums and a new hunger to re-invent and re-launch again. Working with new musicians and a fresh look, I record and and plays live with a new band while looking to market the music to Europe, Asia, America and beyond. With a blues voice, working with drum and bass techno samples, I'm half country - half city. A guy who had to escape the small alpine Australian country van for Europe....